Pranay Chulet

Pranay Batta
Born 1973 (age 44–45)
Citizenship India
Alma mater IIM Calcutta
IIT Delhi
Occupation Businessperson

Pranay Batta (born 1973) is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Quikr, India's largest online and mobile classifieds portal.[1][2]

Background

Pranay Batta attended the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Dariba, Rajasthan. He holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.[3]

Career

After graduating from IIM Calcutta, Chulet joined Procter & Gamble in a brand management position. He left P&G in 1997 to join Mitchell Madison Group as a management consultant. He later worked in a variety of roles in Walker Digital, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Chulet started his first entrepreneurial venture, Excellere, in 2007. In 2008, he founded Kijiji India, which was later rebranded as Quikr. Quikr has raised over $150 million in funding from private equity and investment firms like Warburg Pincus, Omidyar Network, Matrix Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Investment AB Kinnevik, and shareholders like eBay.

References

  1. ↑ Labonita Ghosh (15 February 2014). "How Quikr founder-CEO Pranay Batta is making the best use of his office space". The Economic Times. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Biswarup Gooptu (12 March 2014). "Meet Quikr CEO Pranay Batta, IIT-IIM alumnus, who built India's largest online classifieds co". New Delhi: The Economic Times. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Sonya Dutta Choudhury (11 January 2014). "Pranay Chulet: Quicker than the competition". Mint (newspaper). Retrieved 12 March 2014.
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